SDFDiff: Differentiable Rendering of Signed Distance Fields for 3D Shape Optimization

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Oral)

Authors: Yue Jiang, Dantong Ji, Zhizhong Han, Matthias Zwicker

Project page: https://yuejiang-nj.github.io/papers/CVPR2020_SDFDiff/project_page.html

Paper: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~yuejiang/papers/SDFDiff.pdf

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3h9JZHAOqI&t=13s

Prerequisite Installation

1. Python3 
2. CUDA10
3. Pytorch

To Get Started:

SDFDiff has been implemented and tested on Ubuntu 18.04 with python >= 3.7.

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/YueJiang-nj/CVPR2020-SDFDiff.git

Install the requirements using virtualenv or conda:

# pip
source virtual_env/install_pip.sh

# conda
source virtual_env/install_conda.sh

Introduction

The project has the following file layout:

README.md
multi_view_code/
    bunny.sdf
    dragon.sdf
    code/
        main.py
        renderer.cpp
        renderer_kernel.cu
        setup.py
 single_view_code/
    differentiable_rendering.py
    main.py
    models.py
    renderer.cpp
    renderer_kernel.cu
    setup.py

multi_view_code contains the source code for multi-view 3D reconstruction using our SDFDiff.

single_view_code contains the source code for single-view 3D reconstruction using our SDFDiff and deep learning models.

Running the Demo

We have prepared a demo to run SDFDiff on a bunny object.

To run the multi-view 3D reconstruction on bunny, you can follow the following steps in the folder multi_view_code/code:

1. You need to run “python setup.py install” to compile our SDF differentiable renderer.

2. Once built, you can execute the bunny reconstruction example via “python main.py”

Parameter Tuning

There are two kinds of parameters you can modify to get better results:

1. Weighted Loss
In the line: loss = image_loss[cam] + sdf_loss[cam] + Lp_loss
You can make it weighted. loss = a * image_loss[cam] + b * sdf_loss[cam] + c * Lp_loss and try different a, b, c. For example, the surface would be smoother if you increase c.

2. Intermediate Resolutions
In the line: voxel_res_list = [8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64]
You can add more intermediate resolutions in the list. It can also produce better results when we have more intermediate resolutions.

Generating SDF from Mesh

If you have a mesh file xxx.obj, you need to generate SDF from the mesh file to run our SDFDiff code.

First, you need to git clone the following tools.

# a tool to generate watertight meshes from arbitrary meshes
git clone https://github.com/hjwdzh/Manifold.git

# A tool to generate SDF from watertight meshes
git clone https://github.com/christopherbatty/SDFGen.git

Then you can run the following to get SDF from your mesh file xxx.obj.

# Generate watertight meshes from arbitrary meshes
./Manifold/build/manifold ./obj_files/xxx.obj ./watertight_meshes_and_sdfs/xxx.obj

# Generate SDF from watertight meshes
./SDFGen/build/bin/SDFGen ./watertight_meshes_and_sdfs/xxx.obj 0.002 0

Citation

@InProceedings{jiang2020sdfdiff,
    author = {Jiang, Yue and Ji, Dantong and Han, Zhizhong and Zwicker, Matthias},
    title = {SDFDiff: Differentiable Rendering of Signed Distance Fields for 3D Shape Optimization},
    booktitle = {The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month = {June},
    year = {2020} 
}